Texas Tribune: A Texas Lawsuit Killed One Obama Immigration Policy; Can The Same Strategy Defeat DACA?

IRLI In The News

May 8, 2018

By Emma Platoff

DAPA died at the U.S. Supreme Court, but the deadly shot came from Texas.

The Deferred Action for Parents of Americans and Lawful Permanent Residents program, announced by President Barack Obama’s administration in 2014, was a sweeping executive action that would have protected about 4 million undocumented immigrants from deportation. But that program never went into effect — 26 states, with Texas at the helm, successfully sued to block it. … Read the full story in The Texas Tribune

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